National Centre for Sustainability - http://www.islandnet.com/~ncfs/ncfs/
Our mission is to sponsor and foster public education and scientific research relative to the apparently growing imbalance between human economy and lifestyles and nature's elasticity or resilience.
Second Nature: Education for Sustainability - http://www.secondnature.org/
Second Nature is a nonprofit organization working to help colleges and universities expand their efforts to make environmentally sustainable and just action a foundation of learning and practice.
Sustainable Communities Network - http://www.sustainable.org/
Imagine what a safe, livable, healthy community might look like. Around the country citizens are coming together to create a vision of what their community might be and to develop steps toward making these visions come true.
Sustainability Information Services - http://www.sustaininfo.com/
Our mission is to provide consumers around the world with tools, information, and resources that will help them make informed choices for sustainable living. We aim to accomplish this through informative content, links to other site that share our vision and mission, and through affordable products and services designed to make adopting a sustainable lifestyle easier.
SCF - Sustainability Challenge Foundation - http://www.scfoundation.org/welcome2.html
The Sustainability Challenge Foundation was created in 1994 as a non-profit organisation under Dutch law. It provides training and assistance to the various parties involved in sustainable development world-wide.
SustainAbility - http://www.sustainability.co.uk/articles-reports-press/articles-reports-press-Articles.htm
We are an award-winning strategic management consultancy and think-tank. Founded in 1987, we are the longest established international consultancy dedicated to promoting the business case for sustainable development. Our three main areas of operation: foresight, agenda-setting and change management.
Communications for a Sustainable Future - http://csf.colorado.edu/
CSF was founded on the idea that computer networking could be used to enhance communications with the objective of working through disparate views and ideologies to secure a more promising future. The contents of the archives and the quality of communications on CSF are intended to reflect this purpose.
Earth Pledge Foundation - http://www.earthpledge.org/
Our mission is to promote the practical benefits of sustainable development - the need to balance our desire for economic growth with the necessity of environmental, cultural and social preservation. We work in partnership with the private sector to produce projects and special events across a wide range of fields, including architecture, art, cuisine, environment, Internet, media, politics, technology and tourism
Finance and Economics - Library Links - http://www.library.nijenrode.nl/nbr/200/200-Sustaina.html
In developing the Nyenrode Business Information Services, we tried to focus as much as possible on resources relevant to students, faculty, and researchers at Business Schools. In addition, we hope that this Webserver will also prove useful for the rapidly growing number of Internet users from the business community.
The New Economics Foundation - http://www.neweconomics.org/
The New Economics Foundation (NEF) works to construct a new economy centred on people and the environment. Founded in 1986, it is now one of the UK's most creative and effective independent think tanks, combining research, advocacy, training and practical action.
Sustainable Development - http://www.colby.edu/personal/thtieten/sustain.html
Welcome to the Sustainable Development web page. This site offers three types of information: a bibliography of works emphasizing economics and sustainable development, a series of student authored "executive summaries" of case studies involving attempts to pursue sustainable strategies, and links to other sustainable development sites.
Ecological Modelling - http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/5/0/3/3/0/6/
The journal is concerned with the use of mathematical models and systems analysis for the description of ecosystems and for the control of environmental pollution and management of resources.
International Society for Ecological Modelling - ISEM - http://ecomod.tamu.edu/~ecomod/isem.html
The International Society for Ecological Modelling (ISEM) promotes the international exchange of ideas, scientific results, and general knowledge in the area of the application of systems analysis and simulation in ecology and natural resource management.
Systems Ecology - Stockholm University - http://data.ecology.su.se/Models/sys2.htm
Systems ecology is a scientific field that focuses on the ecosystem structure and the processes that maintain or change this structure. Flows of energy and material within and between ecosystems are important analyzing parameters. The notion that different processes act on different spatial, temporal and ecological scales is fundamental in systems ecology. (Be careful - this site is poorly designed - many links do not work.)
Systems Ecology Group - http://www.meeresforschung.de/SEG/Default.htm
The Systems Ecology Group unites the research activities of members of several institutions in ecological marine research focussed on methods to develop analytic and prognostic tools for the understanding and prediction of marine systems ecology.
Systems Ecology Notes - http://bandersnatch.fnr.umass.edu/pub/mod577/sysnotes.html
Systems ecology is not a hypermathematical, abstract study for specialists only. It does not require precise, well-quantified observations any more than any other scientific pursuit. In fact, systems ecology does quite well with qualitative data alone. One of the aims of systems ecology is to incorporate in a logical structure, as much of a scientist´s intuition and ´feel´ for an ecosystem as possible. Systems ecology is an attempt to merge the mathematical rigor and predictive power of general systems theory, and its associated tools from operations research and engineering, with the knowledge base of natural history and ecology.
Brief History of Environmental Justice Movement - http://www.tsulaw.edu/environ/envhist.htm
"Environmental Justice" is a movement comprising Civil Rights activists and environmentalists working to ensure the rights of low-income and minority communities to clean and healthy environments. Movements, often comprised of an aggregate of issues and events, are usually defined in singular moments--catalysts for momentum towards comprehensive, cohesive action and response.
Environmental Liberty and Social Justice for All: How Advocacy Planning Can Help Combat Environmental Racism - http://www.igc.apc.org/envjustice/ejplan.html
The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology for how advocacy planning can help combat environmental racism. In doing so, it will address the definition and historical context of advocacy planning, briefly discuss environmental planning, and then address the definition and historical context of environmental racism, including the Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY) syndrome. Finally, it will discuss the need for advocacy planning in combating environmental racism, addressing the following questions: Is there a planning ethic behind environmental and social equity for racial minorities? How effective have grassroots approaches to stemming environmental and social inequities been? And, is there an advocacy planning methodology for combating environmental racism?
Valley Advocate - Toxic Targets - http://film.valleyadvocate.com/articles/pollution.html
The term "environmental racism" wasn't in the vernacular until it appeared in a 1987 study by the United Church of Christ's Commission for Racial Justice entitled "Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States." Ben Chavis, the commission's director, stated simply that "race is a major factor related to the presence of hazardous wastes in residential communities throughout the United States," and a new field of study was born.
Environmental Racism - http://www.kmlaw.com/eracism.htm
A new battle is underway to drastically expand the traditional goals of environmental protection and the weapons are various federal claims, statutes, regulations and governmental agencies.
EPA - Office of Waste and Chemicals Management -
http://epainotes1.rtpnc.epa.gov:7777/R10/OWCM.NSF/webpage/homepage
Our office works with governments (federal, tribal, state, and local), industry and the public to protect, preserve, and improve the environment and health for all species in the Pacific Northwest (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington). We accomplish this by reducing risks through the proper management of wastes and chemicals.
Dept. of Toxic Substances Control - State of California EPA - http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/
The Department's mission is to protect public health and the environment from harmful exposure to hazardous substances, without unnecessarily impacting sustainable growth and development.
Greenpeace International Toxics Campaign - http://www.greenpeace.org/ctox.html
This site was in the process of being updated when it was added to this list in Oct '99. Some links were working and some were not, but the construction was current and ongoing.
Zero Waste America - http://www.zerowasteamerica.org/
ZERO WASTE is the recycling of all materials back into nature or the marketplace, in a manner that protects human health and the environment. ZWA is an Internet-based information and advocacy resource for Zero Waste. We provide, at no charge, information on associated legislative, legal, technical, environmental, health, and consumer issues. ZWA is non-profit.
Basel Action Network - http://www.ban.org/first_page.html
This is the Internet home of the Basel Action Network (BAN), an international network of activists seeking to put an end to the export and dumping of hazardous wastes from rich industrialized countries to poorer, less-industrialized countries.
Voluntary Simplicity at Awakening Earth - http://www.awakeningearth.org/simplicity.html
Welcome to the Voluntary Simplicity web pages hosted by Duane Elgin, author of the classic book, Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple and Inwardly Rich. Simplicity and conscious living is a path, a journey towards becoming more whole, balanced, soulful, sustainable, and compassionate.
Voluntary Simplicity Resources - http://www.poppyware.com/pna/vsres.html
The term "Voluntary Simplicity" was popularized by Duane Elgin, author of the book "Voluntary Simplicity" first published in 1981. It refers to adopting a simpler life-style by reducing our consumption in order to help conserve the earth's dwindling resources. Many feel that the simple life is less stressful and more fulfilling -- it's a way to reduce the number of hours spent working for pay and increase the time spent with children, friends, family or contributing to the community.
Simple Living: The Journal of Voluntary Simplicity - http://www.simpleliving.com/
A quarterly publication that inspires and supports people to simplify their lives. Includes first-hand stories, articles and networking opportunities.
All-Consuming Passion: Waking up from the American Dream - http://www.ecofuture.org/ecofuture/pk/pkar9506.html
The following statistics, compiled by the New Road Map Foundation, tell the story of how our patterns of consumption affect our personal lives, the lives of other human beings and the environment. They also show the hopeful beginnings of a new frugality movement: a cultural trend toward "low-consumption, high-fulfillment" lifestyles.
Reasonably Simple - http://www.blarg.net/~michaelc/
Online newsletter and free barter service.
Flush Gordon's Dirty Water Page - http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/5161/
The pages above are for anyone who wants to learn how water becomes polluted-- and how wastewater is treated to prevent pollution from occurring. The lab pages below are intended more for people in the wastewater treatment field, or for chemistry students, who want to know more about water analysis. The links pages can take you to further information about all of these topics.
The Western States Threatened Streams Report -
http://www.ecoguild.com/website-index/friends/wcei/wsts/wsts-cover.html
The Western States Threatened Streams Report contains a large amount of information in reports, maps and linked data- tables on the endangered quality of streams and rivers in the region.
America's 20 Most Endangered Rivers of 1998 - http://www.amrivers.org/98endangered.html
Peruse a 1998 survey of the most polluted rivers in the US with maps, summaries of each location and the threats, and speeches on the harm done.
Environment Canada - Clean Water! Life Depends on It! - http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/udo/clean.html
Water is the lifeblood of the environment, essential to the survival of all living things plant, animal and human and we must do everything possible to maintain its quality for today and the future.
Ocean Planet - Environmental Awareness Program -
Smithsonian Institution - http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean-planet.html
Ocean Planet premiered at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History from April 1995 to April 1996, where it attracted nearly two million visitors. This electronic online companion exhibition contains all of the text and most of the panel designs and images found in the traveling exhibition.
EPA - Water Pollution Solutions - http://www.epa.gov/region4/waterpgs/water/wsheds/public.htm
Nonpoint Source Pollution: The Nation's Largest Water Quality Problem - Why is there still water that's too dirty for swimming, fishing or drinking? Why are native species of plants and animals disappearing from many rivers, lakes, and coastal waters?
EPA - Wetlands - http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/
Generally, wetlands are lands where saturation with water is the dominant factor determining the nature of soil development and the types of plant and animal communities living in the soil and on its surface.
The Everglades Ecosystem - Everglades National Park - http://www.nps.gov/ever/eco/
Established in 1947 to preserve the biological features and essential primitive conditions of the subtropical Everlades of Florida, the Park is the largest U.S. national park east of the Rocky Mountains. It is also recognized as the most threatened, due primarily to hydrological developments that have disrupted water flow with serious ecological consequences.
The Wetlands Page - http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/wetlands/wetlands.html
EWG maintains an extensive, award-winning site on the World Wide Web (www.ewg.org) that features most of the organization's publications and numerous searchable databases on subjects as diverse as campaign contributions, farm subsidies, and violations of the Federal health standards for drinking water.
Wetlands International - http://www.wetlands.agro.nl/
Wetlands International is the world's leading non-profit organization concerned with the conservation of wetlands and wetland species. It comprises a global network of governmental and non-governmental experts working on wetlands. Activities are undertaken in more than 120 countries worldwide.
Sierra Club - http://www.sierraclub.org/
The Sierra Club: Protecting the Environment...For Our Families, For Our Future. Use the SEARCH feature to find information on wetlands.
World Wildlife Fund - http://www.wwf.org/
Known worldwide by its panda logo, WWF is the world's largest and most experienced independent conservation organization with 4.7 million supporters and a global network active in some 100 countries. WWF's mission is to protect nature and the biological diversity that we all need to survive.
- World Wildlife International -
Care-Mail eCards - Wildlife Greeting Cards - http://www.care2.com
Free E-Mail service! Use it instead of Hotmail and help wildlife organizations every time you use it!
Based on the popularity of our E-Mail and E-Card services, we've added Search, News, Events, Shopping, Personal Profiles and much, much more. We're still 100% free. We still donate 10% of our Revenues to Environmental Non-Profit Organizations.
Care-Mail eCards wildlife electronic postcards have beautiful wildlife photographs from all over the world...and best of all, Every E-Card you send results in a donation to the Environmental Defense Fund, Defenders of Wildlife or The National Wildlife Federation.
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National Wildlife Federation - http://www.nwf.org/nwf/
NWF focuses its efforts on five core issue areas (Endangered Habitat, Water Quality, Land Stewardship, Wetlands, and Sustainable Communities), and pursues a range of educational projects, and activist, advocacy, and litigation initiatives, within these core areas.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - http://www.fws.gov/
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a part of the United States government, in the Department of the Interior.
Discovery Online Animal Guide - http://www.discovery.com/search/guide/animals/animals.html
Discovery Magazine online site. Extensive article base.
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